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Watch: Microscopic beetle bends the rules of flight
Small but mighty.
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Farisenkov et al. Nature (2022)
The featherwing beetle Paratuposa placentis is hard to see without a microscope.
The little bug only gets up to a millimeter in size, and for a while researchers weren’t sure if the species was capable of flight.
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